Six Ways the Constitution Keeps Leaders in Check with Cass Sunstein (#289)
From 3 Takeaways
The Constitution isn’t just a statement of ideals. It’s a framework for power - built to divide authority so that no single institution can fully control the law. But that design has a consequence: it slows decisions and complicates action. Is that inefficiency a weakness - or the very mechanism that protects liberty? Drawing on his experience at the center of federal rule-making, @HarvardLawSchool's Cass Sunstein explores how these constitutional guardrails actually work, why they were desig...
Mentioned in This Episode
- separation of powers (concept)
- Cass Sunstein (person)
- Constitution of the United States (concept)
- self-government (concept)
- checks and balances (concept)
- Liberty (concept)
- Separation of Powers (book)
- Donald Trump (person)
- Emergency Powers (concept)
- Anthony Lynn (person)
- Barack Obama (person)
- James Madison (person)
- Department of Justice (organization)
- Monsieur de Montesquieu (person)
- Communism (concept)
- Fascism (concept)
- ZARS (concept)
- Russia (location)
- Department of Transportation (organization)
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration (organization)